SWAT Teams - Cash and Revenue Improvement
When You Need Revenue Cycle Improvement–Fast!
Many hospitals find themselves in an “AR hole” due to understaffing or sizable backlogs. Sometimes, staff lacks the knowledge, skills, tools or productivity to turn the problem around.
Symptoms include poorly trending performance indicators like creeping AR Days, stalled Aged Accounts, expanding DNFB, slipping Cash Collections, growing Bad Debt, and uncontrolled Denials and Underpayments. Worse yet is the lack of visibility on the root cause. If unaddressed the situation can turn into a cash squeeze and an overwhelmed staff – with little chance of turnaround.
Jacobus SWAT Experts Are the Solution
Jacobus pioneered the concept of Revenue Cycle SWAT Teams 10 years ago with low-cost, skilled experts who deploy immediately and turn things around. We pinpoint root causes and define a winning plan, and then assign experts in Patient Access, Case Management, Charge Capture/CDM, Coding and the Business Office to augment your staff. SWAT experts show up fast, work fast, and get results. They bring years of best practice skills in systems, process improvement and tools.
SWAT Teams are short term – until key indicators improve - with rapid ROI. And they train staff and supervisors in best practice and tools so that the situation doesn’t come back.
Our SWAT Team Services include:
- AR Analysis and Improvement
- Billing and Re-Billing
- Cash Collections, AR and Bad-Debt Cleanup
- DNFB Cleanup and Management
- CDM Clean-up and Revenue Recovery
- Denials and Underpayment Recovery
- Claims Management Systems Clean-up
- Revenue Cycle System Dictionary Build and Clean-up
- System Upgrade Testing
Proven SWAT Results
Jacobus SWAT Teams have helped numerous hospitals get bottom line improvements - fast. SWAT Teams recover revenue, increase cash, clean-up accounts, and produce results.
